The approval on third reading of HB 6643 places the recently implemented basic education system closer to securing an enabling law. The K-12 program started last June and was designed to add two more years to the country’s 10-year basic education program.

Despite being eyed to produce graduates equipped with a better set of skills to readily enter the workforce, Ilagan maintained that with a budget short by P42 billion, the K-12 program would only result in disaster.

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